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...doubt, of a 50-mile run at 20 below. Blechner, meanwhile, tries to explain his odyssey from Queens to Addison. He has not attended synagogue regularly since late childhood, when, in preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, he walked to shul, or synagogue, and avoided automobiles and telephones on the Sabbath. Then came varsity football at Union College and Outward Bound's Hurricane Island School and a world beyond Great Neck. "I used to feel funny among Jews," he recalls. "I had taken myself so far away that I was a stranger in my own house. I just got too assimilated...
About 10,000 worshippers attended prayers on the Moslem Sabbath at Al Aqsa and the adjacent Dome of the Rock, the site from which the prophet Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven on his horse...
Many mosque preachers used noon prayers on the first Sabbath in the Moslem holy month of Ramadan to denounce Israel for Wazir's death and urge the faitful to continue fighting occupation...
...premiered in 1830, just three years after the death of Beethoven, is an opium-tinged odyssey through the composer's psyche as he pursued his mad passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its restless opening, brilliant ballroom scene, desolate pastorale, terrifying march to the scaffold and cackling witches' sabbath bloomed anew, while the 1839 Romeo et Juliette, Shakespeare transformed into sound, burst with hot-blooded vitality...
...drama group formed by Harvard's Jewish student organization will present two one-act plays this weekend, as part of an effort to produce Jewish theater and to provide a theatrical forum for students who observe the Sabbath, according to student leaders of the troupe, called the Hillel Dramatics Group...